What is the future for office space post-Covid? Will we ever go back fully to 5 days a week? What will have to change?
More broadly how will the real estate we build in cities need to change to meet the environmental imperatives of the 21st century?
Watch our latest Megatrends Series webcast in which you will hear from Professor Carlo Ratti,
an architect and leading thinker on the future of cities and the built environment in the 21st century.
Professor Ratti's Senseable City Laboratory at MIT has been a pioneer in understanding how technology plays an increasing role in shaping the nature of the city and managing the environmental impact of the built environment.
Alongside Professor Ratti is Zsolt Kohalmi, Global Head of Real Estate at Pictet Alternative Advisors, for what is a thought-provoking discussion.
Architect and urban expert
An architect and engineer by training, Professor Carlo Ratti teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he directs the Senseable City Lab, and is a founding partner of the international design and innovation office Carlo Ratti Associati. He graduated from the Politecnico di Torino and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, and later earned his MPhil and PhD at the University of Cambridge, UK.
A leading voice in the debate on new technologies’ impact on urban life and design, Carlo has co-authored over 500 publications, including “The City of Tomorrow” (Yale University Press, with Matthew Claudel), and holds several technical patents. His work has been exhibited worldwide at venues such as the Venice Biennale, the Design Museum Barcelona, the Science Museum in London, MAXXI in Rome, and MoMA in New York City. He is currently serving as cochair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization.
Global Head of Real Estate and Co-CEO of Pictet Alternative Advisors
Zsolt joined Pictet in 2019. He has over two decades of pan-European investment experience, having invested over $20 billion into real estate in more than 20 European countries throughout several investment cycles. Previously he was Managing Director and Head of European Acquisitions at Starwood Capital Group where he was instrumental in sourcing and executing a number of successful investments in commercial, hospitality and debt platforms. Prior to joining Starwood Capital in 2013, Zsolt was CIO at Meyer Bergman for 8 years, a European real estate investment firm that he co-founded. Before that he was a Director at GE Capital, where he acquired financial platforms as well as loan portfolios across Europe. Zsolt previously worked in investment banking with ABN AMRO Hoare Govett. Zsolt holds an M.S. degree in economics from the University of Budapest and an MBA from INSEAD.
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